One Hundred Years of Solitude

and even at the time of the
greatest heat they would
scamper through the garden.
When they finally left, the
flowers were destroyed, the
furniture broken, and the
walls covered with drawings
and writing, but Fernanda
pardoned them for all of the
damage because of her relief
at their leaving. She returned
the borrowed beds and stools
and kept the seventy-two
chamberpots in Melquíades